Andrew Eldritch

Andrew Eldritch (born Andrew William Harvey Taylor, May 15, 1959) is the frontman, singer, songwriter and the only remaining original member of The Sisters of Mercy, a band that emerged from the British post punk scene and, in later years, also flirted with pop and heavy metal. He also programs The Sisters of Mercy's drum-machine tracks and plays guitars and keyboards in its studio recordings. He has also established the record label Merciful Release. In addition to The Sisters of Mercy, in 1986 Andrew Eldritch established a side-project Sisterhood, which was shortly abandoned in favour of continuing working under The Sisters of Mercy banner.

Before The Sisters

Andrew Eldritch was born in the small city of Ely of East Anglia in the UK in 1959, the same year as fellow post punk icons Robert Smith of The Cure and Morrissey (originally of The Smiths). Eldritch later wrote a piano song named 1959, alluding to the year of his birth, starting with the line Living as an angel in the place that I was born.

Related Topics:
Ely - East Anglia - UK - Post punk - Robert Smith - The Cure - Morrissey - The Smiths

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Eldritch studied French and German literature at the University of Oxford before moving to Leeds around 1978 to study Mandarin Chinese at Leeds University; he quit both programs before getting a degree (he speaks fluent English, French and German, and has some knowledge of Dutch, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Latin; he claims he forgot the Mandarin Chinese he learned (http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/gen/vnettext/vnettext.htm). During this period, Eldritch was a freelance drummer in the local Leeds punk scene (in his own opinion, a bad one).

Related Topics:
French - German - University of Oxford - 1978 - Mandarin Chinese - Leeds University - English - French - German - Dutch - Italian - Russian - Serbo-Croatian - Latin - Punk

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